Archives for 2016

Employee Training Through 3D Interactive E-Learning

October 24, 2016

Time is money and training your employees take both. We know that a well-trained employee is the cornerstone to your companies success.

With being in the age of visual information, visual content is king. With 65% of the population deemed as visual learners, are you keying into how your employees need to be trained?

Click the image above to see one of many

different instruction videos we can offer.

Key Reasons for visual learning courses:

– Stays in long-term memory

– Transmit messages faster

– Improve comprehension

– Motivates learners

Don’t Just Tell… Show, Demonstrate

Standard equipment and process manuals are often technical, and lack relevance when it comes to scale.

QA Graphics knows that the key to better trained employees is to bring the process to life through animation.

With a realistic training tool that provides information on specific tasks as well as the overall production process, the client can confidently work sooner. Employees aren’t left to interpret training manuals on their own anymore.

QA Graphics to Debut Symbol Library at AHR Expo in January

October 21, 2016

AHU Sl v5 — This is an example of symbols from QA Graphics v5 Symbol Library placed together to create an Air Handling Unit with an Energy Recovery wheel.

QA Graphics serves as an expert design resource for the building controls industry and can provide graphics for any type of building automation system (BAS). Collaborating with several leading control system manufacturers and private companies over the years, QA Graphics has used this experience to develop their new BAS Symbol Library v5 with state of the art 3D software and rendering styles. This library will be debuted at the AHR Expo in Las Vegas January 30^th through February 1^st, booth 1489.

This library offers a competitive advantage in the BAS industry, delivering more appealing and realistic graphics than typically provided with BAS software. The Symbol Library v5 is powerful and includes over 450 total graphic files available, more detailed graphics, and higher resolution images. Giving users access to high-end graphics and animations that more realistically represent the mechanical systems in place.

The Symbol Library v5 includes a variety of graphics and animations needed to construct building automation system graphics and HVAC graphics or MEP equipment. Almost any system graphic can be created, static or animated graphics, as QA Graphics symbol library is compatible with more than 95% of all major mechanical systems. Our custom designed graphics and 3D animations symbols include boilers, chillers, dampers, filters, piping, fans, cooling towers, generators, valves, ductwork, coils and more. Several newer categories have been added to offer graphics for:

Fire, lighting, lab and security system graphics

More LEDs and UI elements

Our custom symbol library also offers a variety of features, such as:

More than 350 static graphics with over 100 animations in orthographic view
Your 3-letter acronym on major equipment components displaying a watermark on major equipment components to protect the graphics (watermark can be visible or undetectable)
Represent mechanical control drawings in a schematic, graphical view
Multiple duct lengths
Pre-assembled damper configurations
Symbol for energy efficient equipment
Preconfigured terminal air units

Visit QA Graphics website to learn more at: https://www.qagraphics.com/system-graphics/

Or visit the Niagara Marketplace to learn more about this product as well: https://www.niagaramarketplace.com/asb_ListingDetail?listingId=a0nD000000ClvP1IAJ&appType=Product

3 Reasons Why You Need High Quality 3D Graphics

October 17, 2016

Realizing the Benefit of 3D Graphics

Graphics play a pivotal role in creating strong visual presence needed to improve the efficiency of maintenance and management work. Many companies are realizing the benefits of 3D graphics, allowing easier navigation of BAS for end users.

Why are high quality 3D graphics important in my Building Information Management system you ask?

3 Reasons Why You Need High Quality 3D Graphics

The benefits to using 3D Graphics in your Building Information Management include:

1. High quality 3D Graphics in your BAS are not only helpful and bring convenience to Facilities Management, but can also raise the effectiveness of your staff improving efficiency of maintenance and management.

2. 3D representation assists the user to easily understand the state of the facility and what unit controls a zone, giving you a quicker response time.

3. We do the work for you either using exisiting graphics or providing a custom look for you and your projects.

Contact QA Graphics today to discuss upgrading your system to represent your exact equipment today!

Do you know if you are hitting your sustainability goals?

October 14, 2016

QA Graphics’ award winning Energy Efficiency Education Dashboard® (EEED), educates building occupants with energy data and green building features using a kiosk or desktop, tablet, or mobile device.

Engaging occupants helps ensure successful execution of your energy reduction goals. This is done through the display of building performance data, demonstrations of sustainable building features, tips on how to be efficient and other educational features.

All data that is obtained for the EEED is your own to use.

“It isn’t your typical dashboard that just showed real time energy usage, but it allowed us to focus on why knowing energy usage was important and had features that could explain to students what a kilowatt was. We also found the ability to make it our own incredibly enticing.”

Heather Lynch

Sustainability Coordinator/Associate Director of Facilities, Saint Michael’s College

Our EEED Advantage

Content Management System (CMS) for updating text and photos
Customizable features and personalized branding
Helps acquire points toward LEED certification
Provides users with applicable take-aways
One flat cost with no recurring fees*
Specify our dashboard for your LEED® project and leave the spec writing to us!

*Add-ons and change orders will result in additional cost

Dashboard ROI

Some studies have found a potential savings of around 12% can be obtained by involving occupants with your sustainability efforts.

ROI = ((Energy Cost * .12) – Dashboard Cost)/Dashboard Cost

See Our Energy Dashboards

Government Universities

Schools Libraries

QA Graphics has More Offerings on Floor Plan Standards

October 13, 2016

Example of a floor plan using QA Graphics new design standards. This particular example has the curtain wall, doors, and stairs. It also shows the lighter appearance and new viewing angle. — Example of a floor plan using QA Graphics new design standards. This example has the curtain wall, doors, and stairs. It also shows the lighter appearance and new viewing angle.

QA Graphics has become a fixture in the BAS industry while providing customers professional, premium floor plans for over the last ten years. End products are created using existing AutoCAD files, PDF’s, and sketches resulting in customized 2D and 3D floor plan graphics. In the interest of maintaining best practices while continuing to offer high quality renders, QA Graphics announces upgrades to their floor plan standards.

These improvements include the addition of items such as doors, elevators, stairs, and curtain walls, as well as being lighter in appearance and a new viewing angle. These product offerings are in addition to the building detail options of zoning with duct work, windows, built-ins, railings, and furnishings.

Other service in this area offered are:

Site Maps
3D Site Renderings
Interior Renderings
Exterior Renderings
Floor plan navigation graphics

About QA Graphics – QA Graphics is a leader in the building automation and green building industries. The company specializes in HVAC graphic development services, system graphics, floor plan graphics, and Energy Efficiency Education Dashboards™ (EEEDs). Since 2006, QA Graphics has served as an expert design resource for the building controls industry and is able to provide BAS graphics for any type of building automation. The company also provides marketing solutions such as interactive applications, 3D design and animation, UX design, videos, and more. Visit https://www.qagraphics.com to learn more.

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